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These are, indeed, the main springs of that sympathy, without which there is no love among men.
Slowly, the monster became plainer to me; and then, suddenly, my gaze sprang from it to something further off and higher among the crags.
With a sudden effort, I sprang to one side, and, swinging my gun by the barrel, brought it crashing down upon the foul creature's head.
The ordinary characteristics of their composition sprung into sharper relief.
The late Empress of Austria, who was a fine rider, spent some time one spring in Paris, and rode every morning in the Bois.
Looking southward along the axis of the range, the eye is first caught by a row of exceedingly sharp and slender spires, which rise openly to a height of about a thousand feet, above a series of short, residual glaciers that lean back against their bases; their fantastic sculpture and the unrelieved sharpness with which they spring out of the ice rendering them peculiarly wild and striking.
Expert thieves have been known to open handcuffs without a key, by means of knocking the part containing the spring on a stone or hard substance.
You let that wood alone, or you'll pick it up again!" Perdosa sprang at him with a screech.
So the city moved on, as yet blissfully unconscious of the sensation which would be sprung with the first afternoon editions, and over which reporters and artists and photographers were even now, no doubt, labouring.
"For God's sake" Thrackles leaped upon me and struck me heavily upon the mouth, then sprang for a rifle.
Here they come!" I expected to see every man spring toward the walls in order to learn for himself what had caused the alarm, and at any other time they would have done so; but so great was the sense of impending danger that instinctively the garrison formed in line ready for orders.
Then he sprang over the fence and crossed the field to where a group of horses were feeding.
But she stopped far short of me, and I heard her groping about, then give a sudden spring towards the front door.
The man sprang after him, and would have ended his life then and there, had not some of the better men in the crowd interfered in time to prevent him from carrying out his murderous intention.
"She had by this time approached a small gate, which communicated with the apartments on the ground-floor of the Zenana; when, turning to me, she said, "You can return the way you came, but I must leave you here;" and, making a slight bow, she sprung like a young fawn through the gate, and was out of sight in a moment.
AND SUBJUGATES CARTHAGE B.C. 202 LIVY (Sprung from a colony of Tyre, Carthage, founded about B.C. 800, rapidly developed, through a wonderful system of colonization, into a dominating power, her rule extending through Northwestern Africa and Western Europe.
" Johnnie instantly loosed the arm she held, sprang through the doorway, and headlong down the bluffy steep, stones rattling about her.
Ah, deck not out thine own heart's evil springs By making spirits of heaven as brutish things And cruel.
The net results were that we found a nesting place of sea birdstoo late in the season for eggs; a hot spring near enough camp to be useful; and that was about all.
At this, Pepper gave a short, sharp bark, and, springing across the little river, disappeared into the bushes.
Then Beltane came, minded to aid him with the woman, but the hairy man sprang before her, swinging his great staff and muttering in his beard; therefore Beltane, sick at heart, turned him away.
"At the spring under the twin hemlocks.
They sprang as with a single impulse.
Before I could speak, however, the mother and her daughters sprang between the men and me.
In stony places where no grass grows, wild olives sprawl; close-twigged, blue-gray patches in winter, more translucent greenish gold in spring than any aureole.